5. KENNY BRITT: The Titans expect so much from Britt, their top draft in 2009, now that he's finally healthy. But he dropped the ball on the first play, failed to pull in a long ball from Locker down the sideline and also was flagged for an illegal block in the back where he barely touched a defender."Someone like Bear Bryant had power that couldn't be measured he was on a level with Elvis and Martin Luther King Jr.," says William Ferris, professor of Southern history and folklore at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill. Head coaching is "an area where blacks have not really been allowed to move in a significant way."Nearly half (42.1 percent) of college football players were AfricanAmerican in the 200101 season down from 47.6 percent four years earlier, according to Lapchick. The fluctuation, he says, is too recent to discern a trend.

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